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How to install bison on mac OSX

I'm trying to install Thrift on my macbook. Otherwise I got an error:

configure: error: Bison version 2.5 or higher must be installed on the system!

So tried to install Bison on my OS, but I didn't find tutorial on internet. Does anyone who can tell me how to install Bison on my system ?

Kind Regards

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S7_0 Avatar asked Aug 04 '15 09:08

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1 Answers

See here. You can install with brew:

brew install bison 

Then update your scripts or your shell config to use brew's bison first in
your PATH:

export PATH="$(brew --prefix bison)/bin:$PATH" 

Or

export PATH="/usr/local/opt/bison/bin:$PATH" 
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user372895986472 Avatar answered Oct 11 '22 23:10

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